Thomas Clayton Wolfe (1900 – 1938) was a major American novelist of the early twentieth century. Wolfe wrote four lengthy novels, plus many short stories, dramatic works and novellas. His books vividly reflect on American culture and mores of the period. Among Wolfe's contemporaries, William Faulkner was one of his most ardent supporters. His notable works include Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River, You Can't Go Home Again, and The Web and the Rock. The U.S. Postal Service issued a 33-cent Thomas Wolfe commemorative stamp in Asheville, North Carolina, on October 3, 2000.
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic. Here is an image of a semi-postal (charity) stamp featuring a portrait of the writer, and an illustration of the eponymous hero of his historical "cape and sword" novel Le Capitaine Fracasse (1863), designed and engraved by French artist Pierre Béquet (1932-2012), and issued by France on September 9, 1972 to commemorate the centenary of Gautier's death, Scott No. B459, Y&T No. 1728, plus an image of a photographic portrait (c. 1856) of Théophile Gautier by Nadar, which was surely (in mirror image) a model for this stamp's design.
Frederic Ogden Nash (1902 – 1971) was an American poet. He was one of the most accomplished American writers of light verse in the twentieth century. He invented words and used puns, creative misspellings, irregular line lengths, and unexpected rhymes to make his verse humorous and memorable. Nash wrote over 500 pieces of comic verse. The best of his work was published in 14 volumes between 1931 and 1972. The U. S. Postal Service issued a 37-cent stamp on August 19, 2002, in Baltimore, Maryland to honor Ogden Nash on the centennial of his birth.
José Bento Renato Monteiro Lobato (1882-1948) was a Brazilian writer, best known for his children's books set in the fictional Sítio do Picapau Amarelo ("Yellow Woodpecker Farm"). Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of the author, and depicting an adult reading to children, engraved and printed on granite paper, and issued by Brazil on December 8, 1955, Scott No. 829, plus a photograph of Monteiro Lobato, and an image of the cover of one of his children's books. Nice eyebrow!
Zora Neale Hurston (1891 – 1960) was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author. Of her four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, Hurston is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Her manuscript Every Tongue Got to Confess, a collection of folktales gathered in the 1920s, was published posthumously after being discovered in the Smithsonian archives. Her other works include Mules and Men, Tell My Horse, and novels Jonah's Gourd Vine, Moses, Man of the Mountain and Seraph on the Suwanee. The U.S. Postal Service issued a 37-cent Zora Neale Hurston commemorative stamp on January 24, 2003, in Eatonville, Florida.
Bruno Schulz (1892-1942) was a Polish writer, literary critic, fine artist and art teacher who is regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. Schulz, who was Jewish, was shot and killed by a German Nazi officer in 1942 while walking home toward Drohobycz Ghetto with a loaf of bread. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Schulz, designed by Polish artist Janek Konarzewski, printed by lithography, and issued by Poland on October 26, 1992 to commemorate the writer's birth centenary, Scott No. 3107, plus an image of a detail from a self-portrait by Schulz which was a model for this stamp's design. Note: I heartily recommend Bruno Schulz's literary masterpiece, The Street of Crocodiles (1934).
Happy Birthday to German novelist Fritz Reuter (1810-1874)! Reuter's most famous novel, Ut mine Stromtid ("A Story of My Youth," 1862) describes the joys and sorrows of a rural Northern Germany community during the lean years of the second quarter of the 19th century. Here is an image of a stamp depicting Reuter, designed by Peter Steiner, printed by lithography, and issued by (West) Germany on October 15, 1985, Scott No. 1449, Michel No. 1263, plus an image of a photograph of Fritz Reuter. Bonus: Signature.
Happy Birthday to Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of the author, designed by A. Zavialov, printed by photogravure, and issued by Russia (USSR) on October 17, 1956, Scott No. 1881, Zagorski No. 1854, plus an image of a detail from a painted portrait (1872) of Fyodor Dostoyevsky by Russian artist Vasily Grigorevich Perov (1834-1882) which was a model for this stamp's design.
Graciliano Ramos de Oliveira (1892-1953) was a Brazilian post-modernist writer, politician and journalist noted for his novels about the precarious situation of the poor inhabitants of the Brazilian sertão ("outback"). Here is an image of a stamp honoring Ramos, designed by Darlan Rosa, printed by lithography, and issued by Brazil on October 29, 1992 to commemorate the author's birth centenary, Scott No. 2392, plus a photograph of Graciliano Ramos. Bonus: Book.
Happy Birthday to American author and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain. Here is an image of an airmail semi-postal (charity) stamp featuring a portrait of Twain and depicting a scene from his novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889), printed by photogravure, and issued by Hungary on October 16, 1948, Scott No. CB10, plus an image of a photograph of Mark Twain in 1895 by American lithographer and photographer Napoleon Sarony (1821-1896), and a YouTube link to a trailer for the 1949 film version of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, starring American singer and actor Bing Crosby (1903-1977).
Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky (1811-1848) was a Russian literary critic of Westernizing tendency who served as editor of two major Russian literary magazines. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Belinsky, designed by Russian artist Aleksandr Vasilevich Zavialov (1926-1993), combined engraved by Ivan Sapronov and photogravure, and issued by Russia (USSR) on June 13, 1961, Scott No. 2493, Zagorsky No. 2497, plus an image of a painted portrait of Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky.
Henri Pourrat (1887-1959) was a French writer and anthropologist who collected the oral literature of the Auvergne. Here is an image of a stamp depicting the eponymous hero of Pourrat's novel "Gaspard of the Mountains," designed and engraved by Pierre Albuisson (1952- ) after an illustration by French artist François Angeli (1890-1974), and issued by France on May 9, 1987 to commemorate Henri Pourrat's birth centenary, Scott No. 2042, Y&T No. 2475, plus an image of Angeli's original illustration.
Sándor Csoma de Korös (1784-1842) was a Hungarian philologist and Orientalist said to have been able to read in seventeen languages, and the author of the first Tibetan-English dictionary and grammar book. Here is an image of a stamp honoring the philologist, designed by Hungarian artist Sándor Légrády (1906-1987), printed by photogravure, and issued by Hungary on December 5, 1954, Scott No. 1099, plus an image of a bust of Sándor Csoma de Korös presented by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences to the Asiatic Society of Bengal.
Happy Birthday to Xu Xiake (1587-1641), a Ming Dynasty Chinese travel writer, explorer and geographer who traveled throughout China for more than 30 years, best known for his posthumously published geographical treatise The Travel Diaries. Here are images of the three stamps in set depicting (respectively) Xu Xiake traveling, writing in a cave, and mountain climbing, printed by photogravure, and issued by China (People's Republic) on February 20, 1987 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the travel writer's birth, Scott Nos. 2075-77.
Egon Erwin Kisch (1885-1948) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak writer and journalist who wrote in German, and was noted for his development of literary reportage and for his opposition to Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime. Here is an image of a stamp honoring Kisch, designed by German artist Lothar Grünewald, plus a se-tenant label depicting the house in which Kisch was born, printed by photogravure, and issued by East Germany (DDR) on April 23, 1985 to commemorate the writer's birth centenary, Scott No. 2470, Michel No. 2940, plus a photograph of Egon Kisch which was a model for this stamp's design. Bonuses: Smoker, signature.
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